Gallery Talk

Exhibition Tour—Plain or Fancy?: Restraint and Exuberance in the Decorative Arts

Thursday, July 25, 10:30–11:30 a.m.

Ellenor M. Alcorn, Associate Curator, Department of European Sculpture and Decorative Arts, MMA

In this exhibition, view highlights from the Museum's extensive holdings of European sculpture and decorative arts, compare austere works of art with ornate ones, and consider your own responses to different aesthetic styles from the Renaissance to the early 20th century.

Assistive listening
devices are available.   Assistive listening devices are available.

Free with Museum admission

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Friday Evening Gallery Events

Bring your friends and chart your own course through the galleries as you participate in activities that connect you with works of art.

William Hogarth  (British, 1697–1764) | Scholars at a Lecture (detail), January 1736 | 91.1.35

The Museum offers lectures and panels in conjunction with special exhibitions, the permanent collection, and other related topics.

Garden Tour at The Cloisters Museum and Gardens

Enjoy collection highlight tours, garden tours, gallery talks, and other programs at The Cloisters museum and gardens, the branch of The Metropolitan Museum of Art in northern Manhattan devoted to the art and architecture of medieval Europe.